Mutations in the Hair Cortex Keratin HHB6 Cause the Inherited Hair Disease Monilethrix

    August 1997 in “ Nature Genetics ”
    Hermelita Winter, Mike A. Rogers, Lutz Langbein … Jürgen Schweizer
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